I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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